#! /usr/bin/env python

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##  DendroPy Phylogenetic Computing Library.
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##  Copyright 2010-2015 Jeet Sukumaran and Mark T. Holder.
##  All rights reserved.
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##  See "LICENSE.rst" for terms and conditions of usage.
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##  If you use this work or any portion thereof in published work,
##  please cite it as:
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##     Sukumaran, J. and M. T. Holder. 2010. DendroPy: a Python library
##     for phylogenetic computing. Bioinformatics 26: 1569-1571.
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"""
Models and operations with tree shapes.
"""

import dendropy

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### Treeshape Generation

def star_tree(taxon_namespace, **kwargs):
    "Builds and returns a star tree from the given taxa block."
    star_tree = dendropy.Tree(taxon_namespace=taxon_namespace, **kwargs)
    for taxon in taxon_namespace:
        star_tree.seed_node.new_child(taxon=taxon)
    return star_tree

